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This New Spin On Planking Will Completely Carve Up Your Core

Tweak the tried-and-true plank to get your summer six-pack - by Ebenezer Samuel
  • 23 Feb 2018

There are tons of abs exercises out there, but one of the best and most natural ways to build the six-pack of your dreams is still the plank.

Planks succeed where many other ab exercises fail: They train your entire core, from rectus abdominus (the ab muscles you likely think of first) to obliques to lower back and even glutes as a unit. That can help you prevent—or sometimes, identify—imbalances among these muscles, which can in turn help you prevent pain and injury.

But the basic plank can seem too easy for some guys. If you can hold it for minutes on end, you'll get bored. So use that time to plank better.

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This routine starts in the plank position, and forces you to train all the muscles that hold you in balance during a plank. By adding small movements, it challenges your core even more, forcing it to compensate and adjust to changing balance requirements.

Get in a plank position, and work to keep your core steady throughout each of the moves here. Transition between the first three moves without getting out of the plank until the 10-second rest period before the final exercise.

Directions: Perform the exercises in order listed below.

1a. Plank with plate push-pulls, 10 reps per arm

1b. Plank with leg raise, 10 reps per leg

1c. Plank, 1 minute.

Rest 10 seconds.

2a. Iron-cross plank, 20 seconds

Rest 90 seconds. That's one set. Shoot for 3 total sets.

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